Leviticus 25:4 BSB — MannaFest

Leviticus 25:4

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

BSB

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ASV

but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

KJV

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

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Commentary

3 voices

Clement of Alexandria

The Stromata Book 2 (215)

So do we now understand how the law educates us in piety, sharing, justice and humanity? Well? Does it not enjoin that the land lie fallow through the seventh year and invites the poor not to be afraid to use any crops that grow by God's grace, nature acting as farmer for any who will?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And hence the Jews collect that vulgar tradition that after the world has stood six thousand years (a thousand years being to God as one day) it shall cease, and the eternal sabbath shall succeed--a weak foundation on which to build the fixing of that day and hour which it is God's prerogative to know.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

A sabbath of rest - See Lev 23:3 note. The express prohibition of sowing and reaping, and of pruning and gathering, affords a presumption in favor of the sabbatical year beginning, like the year of Jubilee Lev 25:9, in the first month of the civil year Lev 23:24, the seventh of the sacred year, when the land was cleared of the crops of the preceding year.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה	u.va.sha.Nah	and in the year	H8141 →
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗ת	ha.she.vi.'It	<the> seventh	H7637 →
שַׁבַּ֤ת	sha.Bat	a sabbath of	H7676 →
שַׁבָּתוֹן֙	sha.ba.tOn	sabbath observance	H7677 →
יִהְיֶ֣ה	yih.Yeh	it will belong	H1961 →
לָאָ֔רֶץ	la.'A.retz	to the land	H776 →
שַׁבָּ֖ת	sha.Bat	a sabbath	H7676 →
לַיהוָ֑ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
שָֽׂדְךָ֙	sa.de.Kha	field your	H7704 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִזְרָ֔ע	tiz.Ra'	you will sow	H2232 →
וְכַרְמְךָ֖	ve.khar.me.Kha	and vineyard your	H3754 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִזְמֹֽר׃	tiz.Mor	you will prune	H2168 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
leads to
- Leviticus 26:34–35
  Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 29:10
  For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
- Jeremiah 25:11–12
  And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- Zechariah 1:12
  Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
- Daniel 9:2
  in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Through
Leviticus 26:43
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and…
leads to
- Leviticus 26:15
  and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
- Romans 8:7
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12
  And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Leviticus

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Leviticus